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Elizabeth Bradfield and Demet Taşpınar

Travel of the Light

Elizabeth Bradfield and Demet Taşpınar

Elizabeth Bradfield is the author of two poetry collections: Approaching Ice and Interpretive Work. Her poems have appeared in The Atlantic, The Believer, Orion, Poetry and she has been awarded the Audre Lorde Prize and a Stegner Fellowship, among other honors. Founder and editor-in-chief of Broadsided Press (www.broadsidedpress.org), she lives on Cape Cod and works as a naturalist locally and on expedition ships. She is the current Poet-in-Residence at Brandeis University. www.ebradfield.com

Demet Taşpınar is a video artist and painter from Turkey, currently studying for her MA in Fine Art at New York University. She has shown work at Art Bosphorus and Canakkale Art Biennale in Turkey, Auto Center in Berlin, and Kingsgate Gallery and the Tate Modern in London. She works as a ship’s medical doctor on expedition ships in Antarctica, the Arctic, and elsewhere, looking and filming and responding as she travels. www.demettaspinar.com